World's priciest camper, scent of a polder, beauty pageant betting debacle, baseball's magic mud, soda with real urine, and one more use for cats

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There's also a new, compact look for tar, which we feel reflects the needs of tar's "readers", such as they are. In other words, it's shorter. There are other little changes we've made, too - generally to save time in production and to cut down on my RSI.

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World Wide Weird

Greek island town rolls out two-metre newspaper

AFP

Greek newspapers normally resort to offers of free CDs, cars and homes to boost flagging sales, but a publisher on the island of Crete hit upon a format readers cannot fail to notice.



Aimed at a bid for the Guinness Book of Records, the newspaper titled "Chillout" and first published on Wednesday, is 2.10 metres high and 2.95 metres wide (84 inches by 118 inches), the Athens News Agency (ANA) reported on Wednesday.

Four thousand copies of the giant paper will be distributed free of charge in the western town of Chania every Wednesday, ANA said.

'Chillout' will cover cultural and social news.

According to the Guinness Book of Records website, the record for the largest special edition of a newspaper is held by the Belgian Het Volk published in Ghent on June 14, 1993. The newspaper measured 1.42 metres by 0.995 metres (56 inches by 39 inches). It sold 50,000 copes. (:/)

U.S. gas prices fuel "drive offs" by angry drivers

Reuters

A growing number of American automobile owners are so infuriated by rising gasoline prices that they are refusing to pay and speeding off in their cars from gas stations after filling their tanks.

Since Hurricane Katrina disrupted supplies and sent prices soaring, a flurry of what gasoline retailers call "drive offs" have taken place in New Hampshire -- a state whose car license plates are engraved with the motto: "Live Free or Die."

"I think we're seeing an increase in it because of the increase in gas prices," said Lt. Paul Leger of the police department in the state capital Concord, echoing comments by gas retailers across the state.

"We were just experiencing a wealth of drive-offs," Peterborough Oil Company owner Joe Hart said in the Concord Monitor, a New Hampshire daily.

"It's all shapes and sizes and ages of people who, for some reason, think they're shaking their fist at the oil-producing people, but it actually hurts us quite a bit," he said.

Americans have been stunned by record gasoline prices after devastation from Hurricane Katrina.

Gasoline prices vaulted to well over $3 a gallon in many parts of the United States after the hurricane shut down most of the region's oil production and refineries. Gasoline had sold for about $2.60 a gallon before the hurricane hit. (:/)

Who says Yanks don't understand enhanced global warming, heed the geopolitical consequences on a reliance of oil, or have a sense of financial perspective in a world that needs to move to a green economy?

$2.60 a gallon is 57c a litre. 57c is 31p.
$3 a gallon is 66c a litre. 66c is 36p.

And UK prices? It's easy to pay £1 a litre.
£1 per litre is £4.50 a gallon.
£4.50 a gallon is $8.22 per gallon.

Just so we're clear on what the Yanks are getting so annoyed about.

£1m camper van

Ananova

The world's largest luxury camping van, costing more than £1m, has been custom built for an oil Sheik.


(Europics)

Austrian company Action Mobil built the 40ft long vehicle for use on long desert trips, with a huge 13-litre, 600hp engine - which runs at a gas-guzzling 5mph [sic - surely "mpg"? Ed.].

The Desert Challenger took one and a half years to build and includes a large lavishly furnished living room and a state-of-the-art kitchen.


(Europics)

Action Mobil manager Stefan Wirth said: "The client, whose name we will not reveal, will be able to travel the desert together with his family and friends, without needing any outside support for several weeks.

"The Desert Challenger can take up to 4,000 litres of water and up to 2,500 litres of diesel fuel, and there is enough storage to take a considerable amount of food.

"The whole vehicle is entirely hand-made. It has absolutely nothing to do with camping: we used superb materials and expertise from yacht-building and aircraft-building.

"There is a special CCTV surveillance system including two large flat-screens, so that one could record every detail of the outside vicinity." (:/)

I do think about how these stories follow each other, you know.

Burns Bog Fire Means Busy Fire Departments

CKNW/AM980, Vancouver

Smoke from the Burns Bog Fire has fire departments across Greater Vancouver answering one phone call after another.

Vancouver Fire Department spokesman Rob Jones-Cook says well meaning citizens are overloading the system.

'We'd like to ask people not to call.

This is all attributable to the Burns Bog fire.

It is triggering a lot of alarm systems in buildings.

But it's getting to the point where we can not keep up to the telephone calls that are coming in and I know it's a similar story at the E-Comm dispatch centre"

He says by all means, call in if you have spotted a **new** fire.

Don't call in to report the Burns Bog fire. (:/)

Pastry truck crashes, damages restaurant

Macon Telegraph

Early Wednesday morning, a Krispy Kreme truck crashed into two light poles and threw trays of the pastries into the window of Jim Shaw's Seafood Grill on Vineville Avenue.

Richard Lamar Simmons, 36, who was driving the truck, told Macon police he was trying to avoid hitting a dog crossing the street, according to an accident report.

Skipper Zimmerman, owner of the restaurant at 3040 Vineville Ave., said that the 5:08 a.m. accident tore off the side of the truck and that the racks crashed through his window.

No one was in the restaurant at the time.

"I saw a couple hundred doughnuts," he said with a laugh.

"We had jelly on the wall inside and jelly on the wall outside. We're just lucky nobody was hurt," Zimmerman said. (:/)

The smell of the Dutch polder in a perfume bottle

AFP

A Dutch luxury department store is set to launch on Tuesday a new perfume "Essence de Mastenbroek", named after a Dutch polder, which mixes the scents of the farmland and describes itself as an "Eau de Polder".



Commissioned by the SKOR foundation for art and public spaces the perfume was chosen from among different scents created by a perfumer who worked with the basic smells of the polder, the area of low-lying land protected by dykes.

The perfume has "grass scent, hay scent and stable scent", according to the SKOR foundation.

The price of the new perfume is not yet known but the scent comes in a stylish flask not unlike those used in chemistry sets.

Once a buyer gets a bottle of "Essence de Mastenbroek" it will be refilled for free if they come to the Matsenbroek polder were [sic] a special "Source de l'Essence" was set up in a draining station. (:/)

Sounds dih-vine!

Mud eater bugs neighbours

Ananova

An Indian man has become a nuisance to his neighbours because of his habit of eating ther mud.

Barsaatu Lal collects mud in sacks to last him an entire week, reports Asian News International.

The resident of Karimpur Bind, in Uttar Pradesh, says he has been eating mud for the past eight years and prefers it with lime paste and water.

The 35-year-old said: "I was working on my farm one day when I felt this sudden urge to eat mud. I must have eaten only a little bit, but I liked what I ate.

"But slowly, the quantity increased and today I eat nearly two kilograms of mud. I think it really benefits me and I feel immense strength when I eat it."

Barsaatu’s "greed for mud" has reportedly led to frequent brawls with local farmers who resent his habit of scooping up "quality" mud from their properties.

Raj Bahadur, the village headman, said: "We want to request the government to kindly grant him an acre of land so that he digs there only and eats to his gratification.

"We are also thinking of getting him a trolley full of mud so he eats peacefully and does not disturb our farms." (:/)

Home on the Strange

Nightmare is over as study says cheese doesn't cause bad dreams

The Scotsman

Cheese does not give you nightmares at all, according to a new investigation into the truth of the old wife's tale.

But researchers also found that the type of cheese you eat can affect the type of dreams you have.

The study, perhaps unsurprisingly carried out by the British Cheese Board, involved 200 volunteers in a week-long cheese-eating experiment.

After eating a 20g piece of cheese 30 minutes before going to sleep, 72 per cent of the volunteers slept very well every night, 67 per cent remembered their dreams and none reported nightmares.

The British Cheese Board said that their study endorsed scientific fact.

Dr Judith Bryans, a nutrition scientist at The Dairy Council, said: "One of the amino acids in cheese - tryptophan - has been shown to reduce stress and induce sleep so cheese may actually help you have a good night's sleep."

It is not clear where the cheese and nightmares myth originated. It has been linked to Charles Dickens' character Scrooge who blamed "a crumb of cheese" for his night-time visitations in A Christmas Carol.

The myth has also been associated with a 1950s health scare when cheese was found to be problematic for people using a particular antidepressant.

When it came to dream type, it seemed that Stilton caused odd dreams, with 75 per cent of men and 85 per cent of women experiencing bizarre and vivid dreams. (:/)

Britons spend billions of dollars
on gadgets they hardly use

AFP

Britons have spent billions of dollars on household gadgets like sandwich toasters and bathroom scales that they ended up never or rarely using, a study said.

Online home insurance firm Esure, which commissioned a survey by ICM, estimated Britons have collectively spent 9.4 billion pounds (17.17 billion dollars, 13.7 billion euros) during their lifetime on gadgets.

The figures published by esure.com include 4.1 billion pounds spent on gadgets as gifts for friends and family that end up gathering dust. Some 24 percent of those polled admitted they thought they might never be used.

Topping the list of white elephants was the sandwich toaster, with 45 percent of those polled admitted to not using and spending a total of 21.51 million pounds.

Next were bathroom scales, with 31 percent at 14.82 million pounds, coffee machines, 30 percent at 14.34 million pounds, footspas at 22 percent and 10.52 million pounds, electric knives at 21 percent and 10.04 million pounds.

The remaining top ten items were electric tin openers, breadmakers, vegetable preparation devices like potato peelers, soda streams and face saunas.

Nikki Sellers, head of home insurance at esure.com, said: "Many of us are suckers for advertizing and fanatical about keeping up with the latest fads and must-have gadgets.

"But as a nation we're guilty of boxing up and stockpiling our white elephant household gadgets in lofts, garages, wardrobes and drawers, leaving them out of sight and easily forgotten," Sellers said. (:/)

Picture Story

PC meets Aston Martin

Wooden computer equipment - only the Russians would come up with something this tasteless while attempting to make something classy.

Brie Fly

Child Pawn...

Headline TAR (I'm sorry I couldn't resist it)/story AP from Lex18.com

The author of the "Chess for Juniors" series of books and founder of a club bearing the same name has been arrested in Colorado on suspicion of child sexual assault.

Fort Collins police say Robert Snyder was taken into custody after a lengthy investigation. He's being held on 750-thousand dollar bond.

A police spokesman says Snyder is accused of engaging in inappropriate touching and behavior with two of his chess students at his home in the past year.

Snyder, a former Western U-S Chess Champion, taught chess to children ages five to 17 at his home in Fort Collins and accompanied children to chess tournaments across the country. (:/)

Oh, the IRONY.

Weird Science

Amazing fossil puts Scotland's dinosaurs on the map

The Scotsman

DINOSAUR bones and fossils have been found across the world for thousands of years. They were first classified in the 19th century and every year new remains are discovered which add to our knowledge of these fascinating creatures. One of the most exciting finds to date is shortly to be revealed as coming from Scotland.

Dr Neil Clark from Glasgow's Hunterian Museum is a fossil expert, but specialises in dinosaurs.

Last year two locals on the Isle of Skye, Paul Booth and Dugald Ross, found a set of fossilised footprints. Inside one of the footprints was another fossil that has turned out to be one of the most exciting finds in Scotland. The fossil was even more remarkable for being uncovered in a country not known for its wealth of dinosaur remains.

Dinosaur traces were not found in Scotland until recently. The first bone, from an adult Diplodocus-like dinosaur, was found in 1982. Since then progress has been steady, but slow, with the odd bone or fossil turning up regularly.

Dr Neil Clark, palaeontologist and curator of the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow, acknowledges that Scotland is never going to turn up thousands of remains.

"We find about one bone a year," says Clark. "This means that at the current rate it will take over 200 years to collect a complete dinosaur." (:/)

Sport

Magic mudhole is game's big secret

Reuters

Somewhere along the mudflats of a Delaware River tributary in New Jersey is the spot where baseball's "magic mud" is mined, a location known only to a few and kept secret for decades.



The unique mud is rubbed on every new baseball used by Major League teams to remove the sheen, soften the seams and give pitchers a better grip.

"It definitely changes the way the ball feels," said Washington Nationals pitcher John Patterson. "If you get a new baseball, it's slick, it's hard to hold on to. If you put some mud on it, it gives you a better grip."

Before a game, Nationals ballboy Lamont Poteat "rubs up" several dozen baseballs by dabbing each one with a fingertip-full of mud and massaging it with both hands until its sheen is dulled.

The origins of the mud are swathed in folklore. Asked where it came from, Patterson said: "From the Mississippi." Other players believe it is taken from an Alabama swamp.

In fact, the mud is supplied by a husband-and-wife outfit in New Jersey but the exact site of their mudhole is a closely guarded secret.

The few outsiders taken to the mudhole have been blindfolded and sworn to secrecy.

"You'll never find it no matter how hard you look," said Jim Bintliff, owner of Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud. (:/)

Older than the old

Aftenpost.com

Steinar Solli - aged 67 - came out of retirement when his 4th division soccer team suddenly needed an extra man.

Solli played the entire match for Sømna in Nordland, and told newspaper VG he had lost track of how many comebacks he has had. But when one of the players in Sømna's starting lineup missed the ferry to the match, Solli went back into action.

"We have quite a few farmers on the team. It isn't always so easy to get them to come to the away matches," Solli told VG.

Solli is 50 years older than the team's youngest player on the top squad, and 21 years older than the oldest player on their Old Boys team.

Solli is probably the oldest player ever to take part in an official match under the Norwegian Football Federation, but personally doesn't find the record impressive.

"I say it is much worse driving a car. And skiing 30-kilometers (18.6 miles) is much harder," the veteran said. (:/)

Product of the Week

Play with Lego on your computer!

Lego yourselves stupid here.

Education

When human sexuality classes go wrong

Headline TAR/story InsideHigherEd.com

George Washington University chose this summer not to renew the contract of the adjunct professor who had been teaching sexuality to a packed house for 17 years. Schaffer was given no explanation for the decision. But, he said, when he pressed Patricia Sullivan, the acting chair of the Department of Exercise Science, for answers, she told him “maybe you need to look at your student evaluations.”

Two of the spring evaluations, from women who took the course, said that the course was demeaning to women. One of the critiques, which specifically cited a class discussion on shaving pubic hair, threatened a sexual harassment lawsuit. That evaluation also pointed to the “look before you lick” advice that Schaffer includes with his comments on all students’ final papers as “a little humor to teach about safe oral sex,” he said.

The shaving topic came up when Schaffer read part of a paper aloud. He said he gives students the option to put a note on their papers saying they should never be read to the class, and when they are read, he changes identifying information. The paper asked “whether you should or shouldn’t shave pubic hair,” Schaffer said. “Think in terms of if you were to put your mouth on someone’s genitals. Would you want it to be shaved? Is a little topiary work appropriate?” Schaffer said the student who threatened the lawsuit found the discussion about women shaving to be inappropriate. “But I talked about men and women,” Schaffer added. “That’s a question people ask.” (:/)

Well I ask it all the time!

Criminal Negligence

Student cited twice for public urination

News and Observer (N.C. I think)

Chapel Hill police cited the same UNC-Chapel Hill student twice in connection with using a town parking lot as a port-a-john over the weekend.

Police say they found Spencer Michael Killette, 21, of 132 S. Columbia St., urinating Friday night in the town parking deck at 150 E. Rosemary St. That was at 11:50 p.m.

Twenty-eight minutes later, Killette was at it again, according to arrest warrants.

"After being cited and released for urinating in public, Mr. Killette walked approximately 50 feet and urinated inside the town parking deck again," according to the second arrest warrant.

He faces maximum fines of $50 for each incident, plus court costs. (:/)

Company Says Clerk Urinated Into Soda

AP

A [Florida] convenience store worker has admitted urinating into a soda bottle, causing a customer who drank from it to become violently ill, his bosses say.

Lab tests done by Publix on the contaminated Mountain Dew confirmed the soda contained urine, Stevens said.

"It is an isolated incident done by one of our associates," [spokesman] Stevens said. "Whatever measure is necessary, it will be executed and the employee will be dealt with."

The victim, a foreman with a Daytona Beach construction company, became suspicious of the drink after he chugged the beverage last week, his attorney, Daniel Newlin, said

"He vomited three or four times afterward," said Newlin, who did not release his client's name in order to protect the man's privacy.

Newlin said that upon the advice of an infectious-disease doctor, the victim was being tested for diseases such as gonorrhea and hepatitis C.

"We're hopeful that the person who did this wasn't carrying any sexual, or otherwise, virus that could cause him harm," Newlin said. "Unfortunately, the doctors were very concerned." (:/)

Man Learns Brother Next to Him Is Wanted

AP

Nicholas Cerino could recognize one of "America's Most Wanted," - the fugitive profiled on the show Saturday night was sitting in his living room.

Mark Cerino, 41, was identified on the show as a contractor wanted in Florida for allegedly scamming elderly residents after last year's hurricanes.

Nicholas Cerino said he was "just dumbfounded" to hear a warrant had been issued in Brevard County, Fla., for his younger brother, who has been staying at his home in central New York.

Nine people called the show's tip line to report he was at his brother's home, and Mark Cerino was arrested within hours of the broadcast.

Mark Cerino was wanted on charges of contracting without a license during a state emergency. He was being held without bail at Seneca County Jail.

Nicholas Cerino disputed allegations that his brother took money from unsuspecting victims and ran.

"This kid would give you the shirt off your back," Nicholas Cerino, a quadriplegic who owns a motorcycle shop in Waterloo, said in Monday's Post-Standard newspaper in Syracuse. (:/)

Man Allegedly Pedals Away With Pot Plants

AP Oregon

A bicyclist was arrested on drug possession charges this week after a police officer caught sight of him pedaling away with three uprooted marijuana plants under his arm.

Police spotted Dwayne Earl Anthony Etzel, 18, cycling in the early evening Monday with what they described as a "big smile" on his face.

"I see this guy riding up the street with what looked like a big old bush under his arm," said Eugene Narcotics Detective Scott Vinje. "It didn't click right away that it was marijuana. Then I smelled it."

Eztel is in the Lane County Jail on charges of burglary, drug possession, criminal mischief, escape and trespassing.

When police tried to stop him, Eztel allegedly threw the marijuana plants at the officer's car and pedaled off. After catching up with him, the officer used pepper spray to get the cyclist under control. (:/)

Woman complains to cops after hitman
fails to get the job done

Mainichi Daily News

A woman who hired a hitman to murder the wife of her lover, and then complained to police when he didn't do the job, has been arrested along with the hitman, police said.

The murderous intentions of Eriko Kawaguchi, a Tokyo Fire Fighting Department employee, came to light after she complained to police because the hitman didn't carry out the job, although she paid him about 15 million yen.

"I came to know that the wife gave birth and then I felt betrayed (by the lover)," officers quoted Kawaguchi, 32, as saying about her motive for hiring the hitman.

Kawaguchi, from the Tokyo suburb of Tama, phoned Takaharu Tabe, 40, from Kunitachi, after she read Tabe's web page on the Internet in November last year, police said.

In January this year, Kawaguchi met Tabe in Tachikawa, requesting that he murder the wife of her lover.

In due course she paid him a total of some 15 million yen for the murder and the costs of tailing and keeping watch on the target.

Tabe offered to murder the target by taking her on a motorbike into a tunnel and pouring poisonous bacteria over her.

Tabe then showed photos of the home and working place of the woman to Kawaguchi.

He even gave white powder to Kawaguchi and said he used it to murder the 32-year-old target.

But the wife of Kawaguchi's lover was never attacked and recently gave birth.

Six months later, Kawaguchi then went to the Tama Chuo Police Station and made a complaint, police said. Officers are grilling Tabe about the possibility of other murder contracts. (:/)

Animal Magic

Tiger pictured mating lioness

Ananova

A Chinese zoologist has captured a picture of a tiger mating with a lioness.



A Chinese zoologist has captured a picture of a tiger mating with a lioness. Zhao Yunhua took the rare photograph in Shenzhen Safari Park /Lu Feng

Zhao Yunhua took the rare photograph in Shenzhen Safari Park last weekend.

It's not unusual for tigers and lions to breed in safari parks - but it is seldom caught on film.

This year, two tigons - the product of a male tiger and a lioness - and three ligers - the cub of a male lion and female tiger - have been born in the park.

The five offspring are all growing up healthily, reports Shenzhen Evening Post. (:/)

Inventor: I never used dead cats for fuel

Reuters

A German inventor said he has developed a method to produce crude oil products from waste that he believes can be an answer the soaring costs of fuel, but denied a German newspaper story implying he also used dead cats.

Christian Koch, an inventor and patent holder of the "KDV 500" that he said produces high quality fuel, said he can transform waste products such as paper, rubbish and plastic materials into fuel.

But Koch, 55, said there was no truth to stories published in Bild newspaper on Tuesday and Wednesday that suggested he used dead cats as part of the mix for his organic diesel fuel.

"I use paper, plastics, textiles and rubbish," Koch told Reuters.

"It's an alternative fuel that is friendly for the environment. But it's complete nonsense to suggest dead cats. I've never used cats and would never think of that. At most the odd toad may have jumped in."

Bild on Tuesday wrote a headline: "German inventor can turn cats into fuel -- for a tank he needs 20 pussies." The paper on Wednesday followed up with a story entitled: "Can you really make fuel out of cats?"

A spokesman for Bild told Reuters the story was meant to show that cat remains could "in theory" be used to make fuel with Koch's patented method.

The author of the story said Koch had never told him directly that he had used dead cats as the story implied.

The website of Koch's firm, "Alphakat GmbH", says his patented "KDV 500" machine can produce what he calls the "bio-diesel" fuel at about 23 euro cents a litre, which is about one-fifth the price at petrol stations now.

"I drive my normal diesel-powered car with this mixture," Koch is quoted saying in Bild, next to a large picture of a kitten. "I have gone 170,000 km without a problem." (:/)

So, erm, crappy journalism then?

Reality TV for sheep

Ananova

Animal rights activists in Croatia have blasted a new reality show on the web where viewers vote on which sheep to save from slaughter.

In the show, shown on www.stado.org, seven sheep in a house in Zagreb are filmed non-stop as famous writers come in and read their works to them.

Viewers then vote on which of the sheep is thrown out of the house. After the 'eviction' the sheep has to be 'adopted' by a viewer or it is sent straight to the slaughterhouse.

Activists from the group Friends of Animals said the reality show was "scandalous" and that people were being pressured into adopting a sheep just to save it from slaughter.

The group have asked state veterinary inspectors to investigate.

But the man behind the show, Sinisa Labrovic, said: "I'm not torturing animals. I just wanted to show how people are used in reality shows and become nothing more than sheep." (:/)

I understand Damien Hirst's been called...

TAR Woman

Miss Italy contestants say betting plan a non-starter

Reuters

A loosening of government gaming rules means that Italians will be able to bet legally on the Miss Italy contest for the first time, upsetting contestants.

"We're people, not objects or, worse, animals," complained Anna Prete, the "Miss Calabria" from the southern region of the same name and one of the many finalists unhappy with the government-sponsored scheme.

"Betting on Miss Italy is really bad," she told Rome daily Il Messaggero ahead of Thursday's final of the beauty pageant.

Miss Italy purists are appalled at what they see is the vulgarisation of a 66-year-old national institution and the competition's founder, Enzo Mirigliani wrote to the government to complain.

Allowing bets "damages the girls' dignity, bringing them down to the level of champion racehorses", he wrote, according to Il Messaggero. (:/)

I'll let the ladies out there with more than half a brain laugh hysterically at this, then shake their heads in despair.

Quote of the Week

"To chop a finger off, that's a bit drastic," Backwell told the ABC. "But I love my footy, and love playing sport, and if that's going to help me to succeed at this level then it's something you've just got to do." (:/)

And Finally...

List of odd names compiled

AP

Horatio Hornblower is an odd name, but consider his siblings: Azubia, Constantia, Jecoliah, Jedidah, Jerusha and Erastus. Rene Jackaman, archive assistant at Cornwall County Record Office, found all those names after coming across a real-life namesake of C.S. Forester's fictional naval hero in county census records.

The Hornblower name has been on record for centuries.

Inspired by that discovery, staff and researchers at the Cornwall Record Office compiled a list of more than 1,000 unusual names found in censuses as well as in births, deaths and marriage records going back as far as the 16th century.

"My all-time favorites are Abraham Thunderwolff and Freke Dorothy Fluck Lane," she said.

Other discoveries included Boadicea Basher, Philadelphia Bunnyface, Faithful Cock, Susan Booze, Elizabeth Disco, Edward Evil, Fozzitt Bonds, Truth Bullock, Charity Chilly, Gentle Fudge, Obedience Ginger and Offspring Gurney.

Levi Jeans was married in Padstow, Cornwall, in 1797.

Other remarkable duos in the marriage records included Nicholas Bone and Priscilla Skin, joined in wedlock in 1636; Charles Swine and Jane Ham in 1711; John Mutton and Ann Veale in 1791, and Richard Dinner and Mary Cook in 1802. (:/)

Indeed. Until next time...

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